The programme was groundbreaking in its lampooning of the establishment. The Prime MinisterHarold Macmillan was initially supportive of the programme, chastising the then Postmaster GeneralReginald Bevins[?] (nominally in charge of broadcasting) for threatening to "do something about it". During the Profumo affair however, he became on of the programme's chief targets for derision. After two successful seasons in 1962 and 1963 the programme not return in 1964 as this was an election year and the BBC decided it would be unduly influential.